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Coercion. and its clearly illegitimate, then it is, in fact, not a legitimate, stable state in that sense. >> what was interesting for the last few weeks, what happened at barneys. theres not one person who i met, who said, what they did to that kid was right. what happened to that young man outside of barneys is what happens to every young black and brown kid in new york when their stopped and frisked by the police. the same policy, we think youre a burglar, we think youre selling drugs. we thi...

Increase your wages. meanwhile, health care, housing, education have gone up historically and you are in the same squeeze youve been looking at for decades. >> one of the ways we used to think we could juice the economy, heather, was we know that people who are poor or living right at the margins at the front tier of their income, if they get just marginally more income, we know they spend it. theyre not going to save it, not use it to pay down debt, they use it on consumer items and that usuall...

People who get pensions go out and spend that money and circulate it through the economy. theres some economic growth. eventually more people show up at your store to buy furniture. thats how the economy works. its counter-stimulus to take this money, a trillion dollars out of the economy now. >> especially when folks are living on that margin, every additional dollar gets spent in rent or food or any of those other consumer items. >> thats right. when you talk about percentage of african-americ...

Is part of the point, the fact you can name three jobs juan williams has had in the last week, i mean, i certainly have a lot of ideological disagreements with juan williams but the idea that he is not a hard worker is bizarre. more than that, the other thing thats bizarre, most of juan williams ideological discourse at least over the course of the past decade has tracked closer to this scenario about, you know, hard work. in fact, i recently heard him talk about the poor have to defer gratifica...

Distributional monstrosity. the poor would pay more while the rich would have their taxes cut. i want to focus in the state of florida, mr. cain, you could have people paying a 15% tax on consumer items. this is tough for people making under $50,000 a year. >> well, chuck, this is why -- first of all, the fact that i got attacked so much, and my plan got attacked so much last night, thats a good thing, because it gives me an opportunity to correct some of those misperceptions. heres what a lot o...

Talk about. these high gas pricesser zapping money right out of the pockets of consumers. i looked back exactly a year ago in preparation for this. back in april of 2009. jenna: 10. >> 10 the gas price was almost exactly a dollar cheaper. weve seen gas prices go up from 2.80 to 3.80 a gallon and they continue to rise. its a big problem because as you said these higher gas prices are throughout the economy right now in terms of food prices, airline prices, walmart is talking about raising their p...

Cars to food. they are ready to place the blame squarely on the president shoulders, seeing the economy has a major issue voters will be watching. we heard from kevin mccarthy, who set prices on everything from gas to groceries are skyrocketing. inflation is hitting hard working middle-class families the most. a key driver, increase cost of living, crystal-clear peer and massive increases in government spending by the democrats. you may remember it ticked up slightly to 5.9%, but, but it varies ...